Dr. Boyd is a physician scientist and Associate Professor in the Department of Pathology at Stanford University. The Boyd laboratory uses high-throughput DNA sequencing and single-cell experiments to analyze lymphocyte populations in human immune responses to infection and vaccination, as well as in immunological disorders such as food allergy and immunodeficiency. Many of the laboratory’s projects analyze the gene rearrangements encoding antibodies that form the basis of humoral immune specificity and memory in health and disease.

Dr. Boyd received bachelor's degrees in Biochemistry at the University of Manitoba, and English Literature at Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He obtained his M.D. from Harvard Medical School and Ph.D. from MIT, followed by pathology residency, a hematopathology fellowship, and postdoctoral research work at Stanford University. He was a 2019 recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.